Topic: Burger King to release Xbox/X360 games this holiday

[idolminds]

Haha!

Pocketbike Racer will feature a number of Burger King mascots, including the King, the Subservient Chicken, the Whopper Jr., and former host of E!'s Wild On series, Brooke Burke. Five levels will be included, as will multiplayer races for four people on the same Xbox or Xbox 360, or eight people online over Xbox Live.

Big Bumpin' also takes a lineup of BK mascots and pits them against one another in vehicular competition, but this game isn't a race so much as a bumper-car ride. The game features a number of theme-park settings and on-track hazards like saws and bottomless pits, as well as bump-pumping power-ups. Big Bumpin' will also have four-player action and online multiplayer support.

Finally, Sneak King takes the stealth action genre and puts it to a friendlier use than usual. Instead of tiptoeing behind enemy guards to silently snap their necks, players will sneak up on hungry people to surprise them with offerings of Burger King food. Gamers will have to sneak up on people in a logging yard, a construction site, downtown, and the suburbs, and they will be graded on their performance "based on how elaborate the delivery is executed."

This is hilarious. I have to get these games! They are $4 with the purchase of a value meal starting Nov 19th.

It appears that the fast-food promotional tie-in isn't the only first that can be attributed to these games. "These are not backward-compatible original Xbox games, but truly designed and developed for each platform separately," the Burger King representative said. "There are two versions on each disc, specifically made for each platform. This has never been done before for a title."

Thats pretty interesting.

[angrykeebler]

I hope Brooke Burke is nekkid

[Quemaqua]

That's funny.  BK has actually managed all right with its new marketing campaigns.  If they actually got some decent people to make the games, they could be amusing.  I can actually say that I wouldn't mind watching the King try to out-stunt the Chicken on motorcycles.  I don't know why, but that would amuse me.

Still, my guess is that this is going to be a load of crap.

[scottws]

Wow, what a really cool marketing technique for a fast food restaurant.  If I had an Xbox I would definately get them.

[Pugnate]

I remember there being a Burger King game on the Atari back in the day.

[scottws]

Are you talking about Burger Time?  I don't think that was a Burger King game.

[Quemaqua]

No, it wasn't.  It was also on NES.  I owned it.

[Ghandi]

God, as if kids aren't already fat enough. I'm sure that this is going to work great, its a brilliant idea if they market it right, theres nothing like video games to draw in kids. I wonder how horrendus the games are, though. $4 is barely enough to cover the disk for the 360.